Vijay Anand J
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Seeking assignments in Exchange Server/ O365 Migration with a reputed organization
Profile Snapshot
6+ Years of experience in Infrastructure Management & Technical Support
Presently associated with Cognizant. Having strong experience in managing hybrid exchange setup with huge number of mailboxes.
Certified in AD and Exchange 2010,2013
Handled multiple O365 Migrations and Mergers.
Work Experience
2011 - 2014 – Tech Mahindra as Support Engineer
2014 - 2014 – UST Global as Systems Analyst
2014 - 2017 – AstraZeneca as Associate Consultant Messaging
2017 – Present – Cognizant as Infra Specialist
Key Result Areas
Technical Support
Attending to the faults arising at client’s end, analysing the faults through root-cause analysis and suggesting technical solutions for overcoming the same
Providing L3 support as Exchange Admin; handling critical request and handling incidents in Exchange.
Project Details
Project: IMS Academy
Key Responsibilities:
Designed and Implemented AD and Exchange 2007 in five sites
Migrated from Exchange 2007 to 2010
Provided transition to operations team
Project: Service Automation
Key Responsibilities:
Designing Process work flow for automating service operations.
Creating Power Shell scripts to automate exchange and AD tasks as per Customer/OPS team requirements.
Project: Mahindra and Mahindra
Key Responsibilities:
Manage over 50 Domain controllers with 40 AD sites
Part of design team on 2007 to O365 Migration.
Implemented Hybrid setup and migrated 17000 mailboxes to cloud.
Manage 35000+ mailboxes in hybrid setup
Initiate required cleanup and changes in AD and Exchange environment.
Provide consulting for the exchange sites managed by other vendors.
Manage ADFS and Dir Sync servers hosted in Azure platform
Manage RBAC to restrict organizational level access.
Manage DNS, DHCP servers.
Project: Maersk Line
Key Responsibilities:
Managing one Lakh mailboxes in dedicated cloud model.
Bringing operations to steady state.
Extracting report for AD objects using power shell.
Provide L2 support for Exchange related issues.
Project: Definiens - Associate Consultant
Key Responsibilities:
Design and Implement Hybrid setup
Migrate 2000+ users to cloud
Train and Transition to support Team
Project: Pearltherauptics – Associate Consultant
Key Responsibilities:
Design merger solution
Integrate Pearl Tenant to destination tenant
Move over 500 mailboxes to destination tenant
Project: AstraZeneca - Associate Consultant
Key Responsibilities:
Exchange 2010 to 2013 Migration
Providing Consultation for Exchange and O365.
Take Transition from Vendor on Exchange on-premise and O365 Technologies.
Manage and Troubleshoot 2003, 2010, O365 servers in Hybrid setup.
Manage Symantec cloud (Message Labs formerly) gateway with schemus setup.
Manage TMG Array
Replacing VB script with Powershell scripts for running the automated task.
Involve in TMG to Netscaler Migration
Perform License clean up activity.
Implement Change as part of continuous service improvement plan.
O365 Migration
Achievements
Completed multiple Hybrid O365 Migrations and O365 merger projects successfully.
Travelled to Germany for O365 On boarding for our newly acquired company.
Taken part of multiple transitions for clients.
Developed Address Rewriting module for hub server with Asp.Net
Efficiently designed and implemented infrastructure of IMS Academy which includes multiple technologies
Imparted training to the fresher’s in Exchange and O365.
Implemented multiple changes for AstraZeneca to improve the service.
Star Performance Award winner.
Education
2011B.Tech. from Kalasalingam University and secured 7.1/10 CGPA. Completed one semester in South Korea as an exchange student.
Certifications
MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator on Exchange 2010
MCP in Exchange 2013
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in 2008 Active Directory Configuring
Paper Presented
Steganography in International Conference on Computing Security by NIT, Rourkela; Conference Proceedings Published by ACM Digital Library
Professional Enhancements
Trained in Windows, Network, Oracle and Linux domains for 3 months
IT Skills
Windows : Active Directory 2003 and 2008 – MS Exchange 2003,2007 & 2010 –O365 - OCS 2007 and LYNC 2010, ADRMS-ADFS - ADCS- Windows Network Services (DNS, DHCP, etc.) - Black Berry BES – Azure, O365 Migration
Tools: HP Open View – Nagios – OCS Inventory –Arc Sight Logger, Wireshark – Cain & Able –
OSSEC –Nagios (Monitoring) -OTRS (Ticketing) - OCS Inventory (Management) – BMC Remedy
Security: Basics, Message Labs (Symantec Cloud )